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Learning to Live – Bucket List Revisited Part 2 – cancercamehome
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Living well with Metastatic Breast Cancer. March 9, 2015. Learning to Live – Bucket List Revisited Part 2. Last fall I hit a wall. Hard. Stunningly hard. So hard it knocked me off my feet. The messages of celebrating survivorship and fighting cancer are so prevalent that’s exactly what I did for three years. I rah-rahed with relish, ticking items off my anti-bucket list. I:. Moved into our house and set up home (yay). Grew my hair back (yay). Finished my Ph.D. (sockitoya). I returned to work with energy ...
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Learning to Live – Bucket List Revisited Part 1 – cancercamehome
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Living well with Metastatic Breast Cancer. March 2, 2015. March 2, 2015. Learning to Live – Bucket List Revisited Part 1. When I kick the bucket. I don’t want it to be dry,. But brimming with life. One entry that struck me most is my Anti-Bucket list. Which I posted in May 2011 as an affirmation that I would live a long time DESPITE my diagnosis. At the time, I didn’t realize I was in the early stages of grief: denial, anger and bargaining. I spent a long time with those feelings, trying to...15 year sur...
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philadelphia story – cancercamehome
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Living well with Metastatic Breast Cancer. April 13, 2015. Putting the grrrrr in Grimes. The terrors of the early AIDS epidemic. The unknowing. The limited treatments. Inadequate funding. Living within a limited timeline. Dying before your time. All while watching your friends around you die, from the very disease that you fight. With over 40,000 deaths. A year during the height of the AIDS epidemic, these numbers startled the country. Shook us to our core and demanded that we all do more. You are commen...
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MBC and the Tyranny of Peppy Positive Pink Ribbon Culture – cancercamehome
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Living well with Metastatic Breast Cancer. April 13, 2015. April 13, 2015. MBC and the Tyranny of Peppy Positive Pink Ribbon Culture. It’s good to be positive. But that doesn’t mean it’s bad to be negativeIt’s a logical fallacy. The word. 30% of breast cancer patients will at some point be diagnosed with metastasis. 97% of us will die within 20 years of metastatic diagnosis. Median survival time is up from 1980 it was 18 months then and now it’s 3 years. Stats from Metastatic Breast Cancer Network’s.
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Bitching Wave – cancercamehome
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Living well with Metastatic Breast Cancer. April 21, 2015. April 21, 2015. I’ve been feeling like I’m riding a wave lately. This #MetsMonday movement started by @NancysPoint and. Dontignorestageiv created by METAvivor and given a hashtag by @bethfairchildnc is a growing swell of people living with MBC who are speaking up about what’s missing in our treatment. Watching the swell grow, I’ve realized that what’s missing is us representing ourselves. And Rethink Breast Cancer. Are great but they are dealing ...
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Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day – cancercamehome
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Living well with Metastatic Breast Cancer. October 14, 2012. October 15, 2012. Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. I haven’t posted in a long time. I have a couple of drafts in progress: one about my Herceptin vacation, a forced break from the lifesaving drug due to heart damage, and another about the difficulty of getting cancer- related care in Canada outside of one’s home province despite the Canada Health Act. Today, October 13, 2012, is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. That claim that onl...
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art and writing - Kelly Thorarinson, M.S.W., R.S.W.
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New Art will be on display and for sale at Big Guy's Little Coffee Shop (2891 Lakeshore Blvd. W. between Fourth and Fifth Streets). AND, guess which piece is mine at Toronto's First Anonymous Art Show - Year Two in Support of ART for Cancer Foundation, December 1. 8203;(Show Opening at 6 pm), running to December 4 at 1880 Davenport Rd, Unit 1 (at Symington). Means painting was created in an Art for Cancer Foundation workshop. Kelly Thorarinson, M.S.W., R.S.W. Counsellor in Etobicoke, ON.
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Losing ourSelves: Part 1 – Intro to AYA grief – cancercamehome
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Living well with Metastatic Breast Cancer. April 9, 2015. April 9, 2015. Losing ourSelves: Part 1 – Intro to AYA grief. Stages of Grief: Simplifying the Complex. Emotions are qualitative, and understanding them is more of an art than a science. But in our society, still held in the grips of The Age of Enlightenment, we try to quantify everything. (I blame Descartes.) Heck – simple is easy, and who wants things to be hard? Got it. Easy. I won’t ever mess up with these rules! In her 1969 book,. To simplify...
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cancercamehome – Page 2 – Living well with Metastatic Breast Cancer
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Living well with Metastatic Breast Cancer. October 14, 2012. October 15, 2012. Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Continue reading →. June 9, 2012. Jim’s father’s day blog. Continue reading →. April 7, 2012. April 7, 2012. What do you mean by better? Continue reading →. January 19, 2012. Continue reading →. January 1, 2012. Continue reading →. December 26, 2011. December 26, 2011. Our Haunted Holiday House. Continue reading →. November 30, 2011. November 30, 2011. How to say sorry to a five-year-old.
